Festuca actae
{{Short description|Species of grass}}
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Festuca actae is a species of grass which can be found in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand.{{cite web|url= http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/imp04364.htm|author1=W.D. Clayton |author2=M. Vorontsova |author3=K.T. Harman |author4=H. Williamson |title=Festuca actae|publisher=GrassBase |work=The Board of Trustees and Royal Botanic Gardens|place=Kew|date=November 16, 2012|access-date=December 5, 2013}}
Description
=General description=
The plant is perennial and caespitose with {{convert|25|–|60|cm}} long culms. The ligule is {{convert|0.4|–|0.7|mm}} long and is going around the eciliate membrane. Leaf-sheaths are ribbed {{convert|5|–|10|cm}} long and have a hairy surface. The leaf-sheaths auricle is identical in size to the membrane but is erect. Leaf-blades are {{convert|20|–|60|cm}} long with the same width as membrane and auricle parts. The panicle is open inflorescenced, is {{convert|5|–|25|cm}} long and carries 10–30 fertile spikelets.
=Spikelets and palea=
Spikelets are solitary, and carry both scaberulous pedicelles and 4–7 (sometimes 12) fertile florets. It also have a {{convert|1|–|1.5|mm}} long rhachilla internodes which are hairy, while the floret callus is pilose and is {{convert|0.2|–|0.5|mm}} long. The palea is {{convert|6|–|8|mm}} long, have scabrous keels and a hairy surface with dentated apex as well.
=Glumes and lemma=
The glumes are membranous and keelless with scabrous veins. The upper one is {{convert|3|–|4.5|mm}} long and is lanceolate while the other one is ovate and is {{convert|4.5|–|7.5|mm}} long. Fertile lemma is {{convert|6|–|9|mm}} long, is lanceolate just like the upper glume, and is both glaucous, keelless, and membranous as well. Lemma itself have scaberulous surface and muticous with dentated apex.
=Flowers and fruits=
Flowers carry two ciliate and membranous lodicules that are {{convert|0.75|–|1.5|mm}} long. The also have three stamens that are {{convert|3.5|–|4.4|mm}} long and are yellow in colour. Their ovary is hairy at the apex. The fruits are caryopses and are {{convert|3|–|4.75|mm}} long with an additional pericarp, which just like flowers is hairy at the apex as well. Hilum is linear and is located {{convert|0.6|mm}} of caryopsis, while the embryo is {{convert|0.25|–|0.33|mm}} over it.